Despite her daughter's push to get a living donor, it was actually a cadaver kidney that Jenny received on Friday. Either way, she hopes her story encourages more people to become organ donors in life or in death.

Jenny no longer has to spend three overnights a week hooked up to a dialysis machine.

"Her quality of life will be much better with a functioning transplant but she'll just live a lot longer," explained Dr. Jeffrey Cooper of Tufts Medical Center. "It usually doubles most people's life expectancy."

There are more than 2,000 people in Massachusetts waiting for kidneys.

Jenny hopes to someday meet her donor's family. Until then she said, "Thank you, you saved my life. It's the most awesome gift."